Each year, the Stedelijk Museum and the Stichting De Best Verzorgde Boeken present the most distinguished book designs of the past year.

A total of 309 book designs were submitted for the 2013 contest; of which 33 finalists were selected. Their submissions will go on display on October 25 in the heart of the design circuit at the Stedelijk Museum.

To close our “best of 2013″ series we gathered the web designs our readers most talked about, and we did this huge list to show you what we and our readers considered the best web designs of 2013. These are websites we featured during the year to show you examples of good use of images, type, texture, navigation and much more. Take your time to browse our selection and explore all the websites.

Nashville-based graphic designer Clif Dickens creates these hilariously honest advertising slogans, most of which, make more sense than the real ones. His work has been featured in leading publications such as Adweek, Business Insider, Huffington Post, etc. We’ve compiled the best ones into this list of 40 below.

INTER-FACE is the second International Conference on Live Interfaces. The call is now open for paper presentations, performances, interactive installations, poster demonstrations and workshops. The first conference took place in 2012, Leeds, UK. In 2014, it will happen in Lisbon, Portugal.

Interesting that the term 'poster demonstration' is used - normally they are called presentations / poster sessions. The term 'demonstration' was only used in the formative years & was rarely seen after @ 1975.

What would a word, sentence or paragraph sound like translated through an outdated machine?

This strange question actually has an answer, thanks to Lasse Munk and Søren Andreasen, two musically inclined designers from Denmark. By connecting some old-school machinery to new-fangled technology, the duo has figured out a way to translate your words into music.

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